explanation of what was going on back in 1978 you had to realize how difficult things were in the city it would an easy city. let me add another aspect back in 1978 in addition to all the things that happened in 1978 we had to start the rent strike in china town. and it was the instructional of those resident most of whom were of chinese-american descendent wanted equality they wanted their how did to happen in the city that happened in so things were difficult. what awe rods what the

instructional and particularly the leadership of mukdz and supervisor milk was the beginning of combraidz and understanding diversity. let me put it simple to you at this point. i don't think i would be standing in front of you all as the mayor of san francisco but for the leadership of supervisor harvey milk and moscone. that's how significant i side their contribution here and i make that personal point because they were such leaders of diversity it was hard at that discuss it the make up of the board of supervisors of all the other elected positions the struggles in our our community

across town whether japan down or china town everything was struggling how to get their viewpoint and recommendation. it was very threatening to do so we must understand the history in order to appreciate how beautiful it is today to be part of a government that windshield wipers that diversity and expresses it everyday when all the officials get to share this limp with me. we still have to structural and make things work for everybody. we don't rest on the fact that when gavin 91 so many declared this should be a town where same

sex marriage should continue now with prop 8 and doma we don't only celebrate this but when 289 percent of our homeless are lgbt are background we've got to do something about that. i really appreciate it it when devon got developed involved and lgbt x connect and made it at that lgbt center we're going to respond to that. san francisco has always been there for people pea this is what our government will continue to do. we'll invite people to celebrate the diversity and we'll like this fire engine we'll come to

the rescue of those in need (clapping.) (laughter.) >> this is the spirit of our city and i want to make sure as long as i've got the privilege of being the mayor we'll continue this tribute and understanding the history and working together collaborating finding solutions to people's problems and especially during the holidays making sure we talk to another person who got it a little bit better than us come in and help identify city succeed for everybody yes support the season of giving and the nonprofit organizations in our community help them help us to succeeded and we have continuous opportunity for those

who are succeeding b will help us bring everybody into the rest of the city. thank you very much for this tribute (clapping) and speaking about diversity there's a young man who taught me a lot of things oversee the years hose now, of course, the democratic elapse for the state of california he's also that paid attendance and that's congressmen john bird (clapping) >> thank you ed. you know if willie brown were here he wouldn't have let those

first degree engines go by he would have fired the cohesive (laughter) >> but the mayor didn't mess up the fight of the red triple for the tenant against the howard's authority efforts the lawyer that led the fight (clapping.) but this is a tough day for me speaking about diversity a separate male. heather i knew george i loved george and i group together. if it would for george i won't have passed the bar he took me four days and asked me legal questions i learned 63 years in

law school. what encountering brought to the city it's what heather brought not 9 the city of state but to the country george brought the neighborhoods into city hall. up until the time he was mayor the downtown groups and i don't say that in a negative way but they actually didn't control city hall but if you looked at every commission they almost all looked like me in her opinion all people from the more affluent parts of town that's with an a not an e. george was elected by the people in the neighborhood he made those commissioners allocating look like the city of san

francisco and george was a guy it's really weird having you have to be my angel but it's lekts for mayor in 75 was literally seen by some as a fight for the soul of the city those who opposed george and what he stood for and harvey milk stood four was change and a inclusive and taking care of what we needed in government. those who were opted to george wanted the city to stay the same, same, they were upset by gay rights and civil rights march and upset by anything that would change the status quo.

if he were brought up in a city the status quo was good but not for everybody heather and george understood that we thought it was a time for the city to change and to change for the better (clapping.) which is a novel thought but one of the things i want to mention and heather i had the misfortune or every time heather ran for office he ran against a friend of mine but i supported my friends. heather didn't hold it against me he understood it. and when the alice b club i believe they endorsed against

heather so heather started his only democratic club which is the lgbt lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders he started the city club. i had to go and speckle before them when i ran for the house of representatives it's in the hotel i remember he was wearing jeans and this big belt buckle and a blue don't ask me what i had for prevent i was going a wait for him to take a shot at me he trod me with grace and a lot of respect that said a lot to me about heather i think i was 0 and 3 against him. but everybody talks about

heather and somebody said mark some woman didn't know who he was again harvey is an icon you'll not get who don't know who moscone is they think moscone is a convention center and most of us we call the moscone playground the if you happened to the playground. one thing talk about prop 8 but there's another thing coming down the pike they found out they're fighting against fair housing and started out migrants gay marriage and they thoutd told you they can't do much

about that but now they're going against transgender youth. and now we are going to side once and for all we can't be harassed (clapping.) i believe and, you know, clearly i did not know i can't imagine how it is to be a young person to be questioned about your sexiest and given when tommy passed the bill they said they were going to be another referendum and it's going to be one we're going to win because picking on people who they don't think they can fight back young

people who can't fight back but we fight back for them and that's what we're going to do. thank you (clapping) and i'd like to introduce a friend of mine who's a colleague of harvey's on the board of supervisors carol rue silver. (clapping.) >> thank you very much john. thank you for the remarks and a giving us a complexities for the evening that we are here i won't say celebrated but oubdz it was thai years ago that i stood many of you stood many of you were

not born yet i guess by those of us who are old enough to remember stood on those very steps and we 340ur7bd and we tried to make some codify sense of what had happened. we thought about it we talked about if this was the without doubted the most unbelievable set of circumstances in san franciscoed political history or at least recent history interest if you go back enough you'll find there's things but we didn't have people who were elected officials pulling out a gun and taking out the mayor and

another city official. i mean just how strange was that. but you have to also feel the strangeness of that in the year as senator leno mentions in which we've had the strangeness of jim jones i hope some of you who remember a local minister who took a thousand people into the jungles of south america and fed them cool laid for a mass suicide. harvey's leg is acy was he was able to sue semi late all the strange thipgdz in san francisco and his candidatecy was very,

very strange you couldn't believe there was any gay person elected to anything in america anything. now jose had republic as a gay man and had broken that code so that he was the harvey was not saying i'm the first to have had the opportunity to run for office but he was the first to win. and when harvey will you please it wasn't because all the gay people rows up and voted for harvey but a little old lady voted for harvey and the shopkeepers and they voted for harvey because harvey was there

in neither shops and another their doors every little meeting everywhere in san francisco in that district and that's why harvey won. it's a very, very wonderful thing we're remembering him thai years and very wonderful we're remembering george moscone back up because if we forget the sfakdz that were made for our freedom then he risk the back peddling that will cause us to lose it. we also know freedom is not fro. (clapping.) >> you tuchdz.

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